This online exhibition was developed with the support of the Virtual Exhibits Investment Program, Virtual Museum of Canada. The Virtual Museum of Canada is managed by the Canadian Museum of History, with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
The Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent team
Project supervisor: Mélanie Girard, General Director, Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent
Coordination, research and writing: Mathieu Perron, Ethnologist (contractor)
Administration: Isabelle Bureau, Head of Administrative Services
Image processing:
- Jocelyne Gaudreau, Assistant Curator
- Myriam Saint-Hilaire, Museum Technician
Data collection and entry: Ariane Caron-Garant, Administrative Assistant
Web design and development
The multidisciplinary team at Idéeclic Inc
Audio capsule design
Recording and editing: Daniel Breton, Technician, Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup
Actors:
- Émile-Olivier Desgens (J.J. Bigsby in French)
- Pierre-Antoine Gosselin (A. Buies in French)
- Catherine Van Coppenolle (Lady Dufferin in French)
- Alex Ann Villeneuve Simard (A. Panet in French)
- Teesha Burnett (woman’s voice in English)
- Derek St-Onge (man’s voice in English)
Map design
Émilie Lapierre-Pintal, Graphic Designer
Editing and translation
- Isabelle Bouchard, Editor (Bla bla rédaction)
- Marie-Christine Lalande, Editor
- Darcy Dunton, Translator
- Zoë Blowen-Ledoux, Translator and Editor (Traductions Zozita)
Partners
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The project also received assistance and expertise from:
- Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (research support)
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (research support)
- Dr. Christian Allen Drouin (loan of historic maps)
- Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (access to archival maps)
- Isabelle Chevrette, Teacher (support in the design of learning tools)
- Philippe Dubé, Professor of Museology, Université Laval (scientific advice)
- Marie-André Perron, Graphic Designer (technical support)
- Alexander Reford, Director of the Reford Gardens and Historian (scientific advice)
For generously offering information, stories, and documents, we thank the following people:
- Pamela Anderson
- Betsy Baldwin
- Andrew Caddell
- Lynda Dionne
- François Dumont
- Tom Evans
- Brydon Gombay
- Pierre Landry
- Pierrette Maurais
- Helen Meredith
- Georges Pelletier
- Wendy Renaud (Turriff family)
- Lindsay Thomson
- John Willis